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Tim Ferriss · 2025-03-28

Craig Mod Returns — Epic Walks, The Art of Slowness, and More

Craig Mod Returns — Epic Walks, The Art of Slowness, and More

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Perfect Days

Wim Wenders (inferred)

“it's worth the whole push through I think it's a good piece of film ... yeah it's worth checking out”
“I'm looking up the name of a movie that I saw recently if people want a visual on a roughly six tatami room perfect days”— Craig Mod
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An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no Aji / The Taste of Mackerel)

Yasujiro Ozu (inferred)

“if you're going to watch one Ozu film watch Sanma no Aji”
“if you're going to watch one Ozu film watch Sanma no Aji is what it's called in Japanese ... the taste of mackerel beautiful title”— Craig Mod
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temu.photo (te M photo.com)

“these are beautiful shots ... it is a really beautiful compilation and if you browse through you'll get some of the feeling that Craig is referring to”
“there is a website temu photo.com and it is almost entirely nighttime shots of Japan cool and urban Japan”— Tim Ferriss
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Freedom (freedom.to)

Freedom (inferred)

“the software called Freedom which is actually pretty good ... a lot of what I've accomplished as a writer is because of thanks to Freedom”
“I ran the software called Freedom which is actually pretty good freedom.to is the website and I've used that for a while to basically break my devices”— Craig Mod
BookRecommendedISBN verified

Bird by Bird

Anne Lamott (inferred)

“yeah I love that book”
“that title is a reference to Bird by bird which I think you've talked about before yeah and Lamott of course Bird by Bird yeah I love that book”— Craig Mod
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Black Swan Green

David Mitchell (inferred)

“that's actually one of my favorites of his”
“green Swan Black Swan or something that's actually one of my favorites of his Black Swan green I think is what it's called”— Tim Ferriss
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

David Mitchell

“historical fiction beautiful book”
“oh the Thousand autumns of Jacob de Zoet I think his book about Dejima over in Nagasaki historical fiction beautiful book”— Craig Mod

The guest's own work

BookBy the guest

Art Space Tokyo

Craig Mod

“I co-authored slash co-produced a book called Art Space Tokyo and it came out 2007 2008 and then we reprinted it with a Kickstarter in 2010”— Craig Mod
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Things Become Other Things

Craig Mod

“in my book that's coming out in May the Things become other things he's featured heavily in it as kind of this background character”— Craig Mod
MediaBy the guest

Walking Across Japan Disconnected and Bored (Wired essay)

Craig Mod

“you had an essay a piece come out in Wired Magazine walking across Japan disconnected and bored I remember reading this piece”— Tim Ferriss
BookBy the guestISBN verified

Kissa by Kissa

Craig Mod

“that grew into my book that I launched during Covid in 2020 called Kissa by Kissa ... that title is a reference to Bird by bird”— Craig Mod

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

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Tokyo-Ga

Wim Wenders (inferred)

“another wim Wenders film Tokyo G where he's kind of chasing Ozu what is Ozu a lot of people know Kurosawa”— Craig Mod
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Seven Samurai

Akira Kurosawa (inferred)

“a lot of people know Kurosawa so you have Seven Samurai ... Ozu is like the Kurosawa contemporary where if you flipped all the action of Seven Samurai”— Craig Mod
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Wool (The Silo series)

Hugh Howey (inferred)

“Kevin brought over Hugh who's the author of The Silo series and The Silo Apple TV show wool and all of that”— Craig Mod
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Buratamori

NHK (inferred)

“he has a walking show called Bura Tamori that ran for decades John watches it and the theme music comes on he starts crying people just love this guy”— Craig Mod
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Cloud Atlas

David Mitchell (inferred)

“David Mitchell wrote Cloud Atlas that's probably his most famous book ... if you like Cloud Atlas you'll like things become other things”— Tim Ferriss
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number9dream

David Mitchell (inferred)

“David Mitchell wrote Cloud Atlas that's probably his most famous book but he's done number nine dream ghostwritten Cloud Atlas”— Tim Ferriss
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Ghostwritten

David Mitchell (inferred)

“but he's done number nine dream ghostwritten Cloud Atlas there's one it's like green Swan Black Swan”— Tim Ferriss